IBM xSeries 206 SATA HOSTRAID doesn't work with FC3

[DI Friedrich Reichhart]

--On Freitag, 19. November 2004 01:30 +0100 Marco Fischer <mf at freshpub.de> 
wrote:

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> Hi!
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> I tried to install FC3 on an IBM xSeries 206 Server with two SATA
> harddisks configured as RAID 1. There is one logical volume which covers
> the whole capacity. The setup does not recognize the logical raid volume,
> IT RECOVERS THE SINGLE HARDDISKS.
> I think, the Kernel has not the right modules for this controller. I
> think the module is "AAICH". There are disk-images with a driver module
> on the IBM website, but only for SuSE 9.0, RH 9.0 and RH Enterprise
> Linuxes.
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> I don't want such crap on my linux box! I want FC3!
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> Is there anybody which runs a 206 with a raid under FC?
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> Best regards Marco

Sorry Marco,

i tried it some weeks ago with FC2 and had to realise, that the SATA-Raid 
Controller on the X206 is a fake Raid Controller, not a real Harware-Raid, 
which works only with M$-Windows but not with Fedora.

regards
Dipl.-Ing. Friedrich Reichhart
Geschäftsführer

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